A manifestly covariant framework for causal set dynamics

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB719CMaRDI QIDQ5161950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fay Dowker, Nazireen Imambaccus, Amelia Owens, Rafael D. Sorkin, Stav Zalel

Publication date 1 November 2021

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07292

zbMATH Keywords

causal setsgeneral covariancequantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Random walks on graphs (05C81) Causal inference from observational studies (62D20) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We propose a manifestly covariant framework for causal set dynamics. The framework is based on a structure, dubbed covtree, which is a partial order on certain sets of finite, unlabeled causal sets. We show that every infinite path in covtree corresponds to at least one infinite, unlabeled causal set. We show that transition probabilities for a classical random walk on covtree induce a classical measure on the $sigma$-algebra generated by the stem sets.

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